Finding Your Superpower In Unexpected Places w/ Andy J. Pizza (#013)

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In a time where everyone has their own ideas of what truth looks like, what is the duty & role of a fact-checker?

It doesn't take a lot of smarts to realize that what we hope modern fact-checking looks like vs what it actually does look like are two very, very different things in the news we read.

This is why I asked Viviane Fairbanks to be on the show today. Viviane is a fact-checker and writer based in Montreal, and she recently wrote an amazing piece titled : How Do We Exit the Post-Truth Era? Why fact-checking alone won't save us from fake news. The moment I finished reading I instantly sent her an email to discuss the story.

We cover a lot of ground in this conversation:

• The Post-Truth era and what that term means
• The relationship between a fact-checker & a journalist
• The difference between misinformation and disinformation
• How information spreads by groups, and not individuals
• The public's loss of trust in major media
• and how we move forward to heal journalism in the days to come

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